SUFFER THE CHILDREN

Authorities 'covered up sex abuse at school'

'He took away the lives they had, and the lives they could have had'

Published: 06/24/2013 at 6:19 PM

(NEWS.COM.AU) — The victims of a serial child molester, a Catholic school teacher, say the church and school authorities knew of the abuse – and did nothing to stop it.

A Sydney lawyer has called for charges to be laid against the Catholic Church and some of the former principals of a Catholic primary school after one of its teachers was this week sentenced for molesting girls as young as eight.

Documents obtained by news.com.au show the school’s principal at the time of the offences knew the details of the sexual assaults and actively decided to cover them up rather than go to police.